House prices climbed 3.9% in Yorkshire and Humber last year, but just 1.2% in the South East.

England spinner Adil Rashid agrees a new one-year limited-overs deal with Yorkshire - but insists he still has Test ambitions.

Sarah-Marie Da Silva says a lack of wheelchair access means she sits in a stairwell during lectures.

The UK is not an "Orwellian society", warns a judge as he rules officers interfered with freedom of speech.

Lee Castleton was left broke after the Post Office spent £320,000 pursuing him over false losses.

HUNDREDS of people have signed a petition in a bid to save a social club in the heart of their estate from demolition.

A BUNGLING “electrician” was millimetres from certain death when his drill almost touched a live wire while he was bypassing the electricity meter at a cannabis farm.

A MOTORIST was seriously injured in a crash in Keighley early this morning.

WELL-wishers have rallied round to help after 35 beer hand pumps were stolen - just one week before the Bradford Beer Festival.

PLANS to create one of the most eco friendly housing developments in Yorkshire have been approved.

A YORK woman whose sister died of cancer 10 years ago is set to open a new restaurant-bar on what would have been her birthday.

A CLOTHING and homeware brand is closing two of its shops in York and moving to one new store on the outskirts of the city.

YORK council leader Keith Aspden says work on new flood defences must be speeded up and more money must be invested in the city by the Government.

A POPULAR Spring Flower Show is turning back the clock to celebrate a century of staging one of the country’s most popular gardening events.

THE council could create homes for older people on Lowfield Green - after no private company wanted to build a nursing home on the plot.